Performance analysis of feature selection methods in software defect prediction: a search method approach

AO Balogun, S Basri, SJ Abdulkadir, AS Hashim - applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Software Defect Prediction (SDP) models are built using software metrics derived from
software systems. The quality of SDP models depends largely on the quality of software …

Impact of feature selection methods on the predictive performance of software defect prediction models: an extensive empirical study

AO Balogun, S Basri, S Mahamad, SJ Abdulkadir… - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Feature selection (FS) is a feasible solution for mitigating high dimensionality problem, and
many FS methods have been proposed in the context of software defect prediction (SDP) …

Choosing software metrics for defect prediction: an investigation on feature selection techniques

K Gao, TM Khoshgoftaar, H Wang… - Software: Practice and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The selection of software metrics for building software quality prediction models is a search‐
based software engineering problem. An exhaustive search for such metrics is usually not …

[PDF][PDF] How many software metrics should be selected for defect prediction?

H Wang, TM Khoshgoftaar, N Seliya - Twenty-Fourth International …, 2011 - cdn.aaai.org
A software practitioner is interested in the solution to “for a given project, what is the
minimum number of software metrics that should be considered for building an effective …

A framework for software defect prediction and metric selection

S Huda, S Alyahya, MM Ali, S Ahmad, J Abawajy… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated software defect prediction is an important and fundamental activity in the domain
of software development. However, modern software systems are inherently large and …

Empirical investigation of hyperparameter optimization for software defect count prediction

M Nevendra, P Singh - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Prior identification of defects in software modules can help testers to allocate limited
resources efficiently. Defect prediction techniques are helpful for this situation because they …

An empirical study on pareto based multi-objective feature selection for software defect prediction

C Ni, X Chen, F Wu, Y Shen, Q Gu - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
The performance of software defect prediction (SDP) models depend on the quality of
considered software features. Redundant features and irrelevant features may reduce the …

The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models

J Jiarpakdee, C Tantithamthavorn, C Treude - Empirical Software …, 2020 - Springer
The interpretation of defect models heavily relies on software metrics that are used to
construct them. Prior work often uses feature selection techniques to remove metrics that are …

[PDF][PDF] Metaheuristic optimization based feature selection for software defect prediction.

RS Wahono, N Suryana, S Ahmad - J. Softw., 2014 - researchgate.net
Software defect prediction has been an important research topic in the software engineering
field, especially to solve the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of existing industrial approach of …

A comparative study of iterative and non-iterative feature selection techniques for software defect prediction

TM Khoshgoftaar, K Gao, A Napolitano… - Information Systems …, 2014 - Springer
Two important problems which can affect the performance of classification models are high-
dimensionality (an overabundance of independent features in the dataset) and imbalanced …